Lou Taylor Pucci

Lou Taylor Pucci
Pucci at WonderCon, Anaheim, promoting Evil Dead, March 30, 2013
Born	(1985-07-27) July 27, 1985 Seaside Heights, New Jersey, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2002–present
Website	www.loutaylorpucci.com

Lou Taylor Pucci (born July 27, 1985) is an American actor who first appeared on film in Rebecca Miller's well-received Personal Velocity: Three Portraits in 2002. Pucci had his breakthrough leading role in the critically acclaimed Thumbsucker (2005), for which he won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Pucci went on to star in a multitude of indie films, including The Chumscrubber (2005), Fast Food Nation (2006), The Go-Getter (2007), Explicit Ills (2008), and Carriers (2009). Most recently, Pucci had starring roles in the 2013 Evil Dead remake, as well as The Story of Luke (2013).

Life and career

Pucci was born in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. His mother, Linda Farver, is a former model and beauty queen, and his father, Louis Pucci, worked as a guitarist for the bands The Watch and Leap of Faith. At the age of two, he moved to Keansburg, New Jersey. A graduate of Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, he currently lives in Venice, California.

He first acted at the age of ten in a hometown production of Oliver!. Just two years later he acted as an understudy on Broadway playing Freidrich in The Sound of Music. He can be seen in Arie Posin's The Chumscrubber, the HBO miniseries Empire Falls, and starring as the lead in Mike Mills' film Thumbsucker, for which he received the Special Jury Prize for Acting at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and the Silver Bear Award for Best Actor at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival. He also played the title character in Green Day's "Jesus of Suburbia" music video.

In 2009, Pucci had three films that screened at the Sundance Film Festival: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, directed by John Krasinski of The Office; The Informers, with Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, based on Bret Easton Ellis' collection of short stories of the same name; and Arlen Faber (formerly The Dream of the Romans) with Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham. Pucci was also a juror for the short film competition.

Pucci had roles in multiple indie films for the latter part of the decade, and had a leading role playing an autistic man in The Story of Luke (2013), alongside Seth Green. He also had a starring role in the Evil Dead (2013) remake, based on Sam Raimi's 1981 original.

In November 2014, Pucci starred as Teddy Courtney in a Law & Order: Special Victims Unit-Chicago P.D. crossover.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Personal Velocity: Three Portraits	Kevin
2005	Thumbsucker	Justin Cobb
2005	The Chumscrubber	Lee
2005	Fifty Pills	Darren
2006	Fast Food Nation	Gerald 'Paco'
2006	Southland Tales	Martin Kefauver
2007	The Go-Getter	Mercer
2008	Explicit Ills	Jacob
2008	The Informers	Tim
2009	The Answer Man	Kris Lucas
2009	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men	Evan
2009	Fanboys	Boba Fett #1
2009	Horsemen	Alex Breslin
2009	Fault Line
2009	Carriers	Danny
2010	Brotherhood	Kevin
2010	Beginners	Magician
2011	The Music Never Stopped	Gabriel Sawyer
2011	The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy	Kid Called Kelly
2012	All Together Now	Ron
2012	Jack and Diane	Tom
2012	The Story of Luke	Luke	Best actor at Irvine International Film Festival
2013	Evil Dead	Eric
2013	The Movie		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Empire Falls	John Voss	TV miniseries
2005	Jesus of Suburbia	St. Jimmy/Jesus of Suburbia	Music video for Green Day
2006	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Joey Frost	Episode: "Cruise to Nowhere"
2012	Girls	Eric	Episode: "The Return"

External links

• Official website
• Lou Taylor Pucci at IMDb